DOL $2 Billion Grant: Open License Required
Cable Green
Greetings Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources,
I just sent this note to Washington’s Community and Technical Colleges (see below).
I thought you might want to modify the text and send a similar update to your Colleges.
This is a game changer ... let’s spread the word.
Good weekend,
Cable
From: Cable Green
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:30 AM
Subject: DOL $2 Billion Grant: Open License Required
Greetings:
As you know, the Departments of Labor and Education announced the Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program yesterday.
I am writing to point out one of the grant requirements .... Open Licensing.
Intellectual Property Rights (page 21 of the SGA)
In order to further the goal of career training and education and encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”). This License allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such users to attribute the work in the manner specified by the Grantee. Notice of the License shall be affixed to the Work. For more information on this License, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
This is VERY good news for our system (and is consistent with the SBCTC open policy) – as all 34 Colleges will have unrestricted, open access (legal rights to reuse, remix, revise and redistribute) to all $2 Billion worth of courses / programs produced with this grant.
Good weekend,
Cable
Cable Green, PhD
Director of eLearning & Open Education
(e) cgr...@sbctc.edu / (p) 360-704-4334
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